Man who secretly filmed people in toilets given 20 months jail

A man accused of secretly filming more than 200 people including children in public toilets around Sydney tried to hide his face from the reporters and cameras today as he was sentenced to 20 months jail.

Benjamin Moorhouse, 40, a senior manager for global property management company Brookfield, filmed his innocent victims for his own "sexual gratification".

In arguing for a lesser sentence, the court heard Mr Moorhouse was suffering from his wife's infidelity at the time of the offending and his behavior was, in part, a product of his disadvantaged upbringing.

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"Every single person in the community that has used those public restrooms don't know if they've fallen victim or not."

One of the cameras used to film people in the public toilets. (9NEWS) ()

"Members of the community are rightly outraged," said Mr Hough.

Magistrate Mark Richardson said his actions were a "gross invasion of privacy."

"The equipment is purchased. It's planned, a totally intended act."

"It is totally reprehensible criminal conduct."

Some of the items taken from the home of Benjamin Moorhouse. (9NEWS) ()

His covert plan unravelled in March of this year, when cameras were discovered at both Parramatta and North Sydney train stations, and Westfield Parramatta shopping centre.

Police arrested Moorhouse outside his Parramatta home, in Sydney's west, on March 22, where they discovered a camera similar to those found tapped to the sink of various public bathrooms.

Police facts state almost 100 people were filmed at a Parramatta train station toilet between February 13 and 14, and 23 people were filmed at a North Sydney bathroom on February 10.

Approximately 100 people were also filmed at the Westfield Parramatta disabled toilet between March 17 and 20.

The cameras were installed in public toilets. (9NEWS) ()

Moorhouse pleaded guilty in May to seven charges, including three counts of Fleming a person in a private act, three counts of installing filming device and one count of producing child abuse material.